I've been scratching my head for the last few hours trying to resolve an issue with a DC.

First a bit of background, I have 3 DCs, all globe catalogues, the server that is having the following problems doesn't have any of the FSMO roles, it doesn't have DHCP or DNS roles although it did a few months ago. All the other servers appear to be working fine. The domain is windows server 2008 R2.

Is this server a Domain Controller? If it is, you really should have dns on it. TCP/IP properties should have the primary pointing to its static IP address, secondary should be pointing to one of the other domain controllers.

as sc302 said, if that's a DC I would strongly suggest you have DNS installed on it as well. Can you even dcpromo without installing the DNS role? :\ Whens the last time DFS worked as it should? Did it recently stop working or has it been done for a month or two?

You are having an issue with replication. Just because you see your AD objects doesn't mean your file objects are replicating properly. Your replication logs should have errors and possibly some in your ad event logs...these logs should have a ton of errors in them.

You are having an issue with replication. Just because you see your AD objects doesn't mean your file objects are replicating properly. Your replication logs should have errors and possibly some in your ad event logs...these logs should have a ton of errors in them.

I am very well aware I am having a problem with replication, I was only answering ]SK[ question about AD object replication. I didn't dismiss your idea to look at he replication logs did I, I was going to have a look at them once I return home.

I'm probably reading to much into it but your post feels like you where attacking me for not replying to you.